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That was quite a performance that Jeremiah Wright put on at the National Press Club today.
For all the talk of reconciliation, Jeremiah Wright could care less about a post-racial approach that many Obama supporters are hoping for. He's an old-line liberal, a Black Liberation theologist that basically holds the American government and anglo-Americans in contempt.
The largely non-Christian, liberal press corp got an earful from him this morning as the Q and A time turned into an opportunity for J Wright to mock them and broader American society as well. The members of the press gave him a standing ovation after his opening remarks but little did they realize what they were in for when the Q and A started.
A couple of highlights:
- He again suggested that America got what it deserved on 9-11.
- He implied that America and its armies control the world and are imperialistic.
- He said the U.S. government has never apologized to blacks for the sin of slavery.
- He put forth a religious universalism seemingly to contradict the exclusivism of a John 14:6 quote mentioned in a question to him. The obvious conclusion is there are many pathways to God besides Christianity.
- He reiterated that it was entirely plausible that the U.S. government created the AIDS virus to kill blacks.
- He basically again portrayed Obama as a politician that will say anything to get elected.
- He mocked the female presenter and press members' written questions. At one point he snatched her notes out of her hand in a confrontational way.
- He made many silly gestures to his cheering supporters as a way to mock the press members even as the presenter was reading the next question to him. He perpetuated an obvious black versus white atmosphere while his supporters encouraged him on.
- He had his bodyguards on stage with him, Black Muslim-style (minus the bow ties), as if the press members would actually harm him.
- He insulted "white" Christians as basically calling themselves something that they are not as if he had the monopoly on spiritual truth.
- He complained several times that the Bill Moyers interview edited out key parts as if to suggest that Moyers manipulated the video to deliberately portray him in a bad light.
- He defended and would not denounce Louis Farrakhan.
- He suggested himself as a suitable Vice-President candidate.
Bottom line, Obama will get 90% of the black vote no matter what to go along with many liberal whites that are going to vote for Obama simply for the "change" aspect.
However, many others who might be considering to vote for Obama will turn away from him after hearing the extremism and seeing the contempt that J Wright has for much of America.
Jeremiah Wright says that the Black Church is being attacked by the press and he is defending it. However, the underlying message he communicates is that white America is the main problem for black people today and has been since the very beginning. In other words, almost all whites, including democrats really just don’t get it. There is an inherent moral bankruptcy with whites that is readily evidenced.
Obama has a problem. He had better denounce and distance himself from J Wright and fast. This guy is not going away and he seems to relish the attention. The press that has practically anointed Obama as President and are trying their best to see him elected will not take today's public spanking by Jeremiah Wright very well at all. You will see some in the media swing back to Clinton.
J Wright is nothing but trouble. He is divisive and he doesn't care. If Obama wants to bring people together with a message of hope and change then he better come out and disassociate himself from his former pastor very quickly.
For all the talk of reconciliation, Jeremiah Wright could care less about a post-racial approach that many Obama supporters are hoping for. He's an old-line liberal, a Black Liberation theologist that basically holds the American government and anglo-Americans in contempt.
The largely non-Christian, liberal press corp got an earful from him this morning as the Q and A time turned into an opportunity for J Wright to mock them and broader American society as well. The members of the press gave him a standing ovation after his opening remarks but little did they realize what they were in for when the Q and A started.
A couple of highlights:
- He again suggested that America got what it deserved on 9-11.
- He implied that America and its armies control the world and are imperialistic.
- He said the U.S. government has never apologized to blacks for the sin of slavery.
- He put forth a religious universalism seemingly to contradict the exclusivism of a John 14:6 quote mentioned in a question to him. The obvious conclusion is there are many pathways to God besides Christianity.
- He reiterated that it was entirely plausible that the U.S. government created the AIDS virus to kill blacks.
- He basically again portrayed Obama as a politician that will say anything to get elected.
- He mocked the female presenter and press members' written questions. At one point he snatched her notes out of her hand in a confrontational way.
- He made many silly gestures to his cheering supporters as a way to mock the press members even as the presenter was reading the next question to him. He perpetuated an obvious black versus white atmosphere while his supporters encouraged him on.
- He had his bodyguards on stage with him, Black Muslim-style (minus the bow ties), as if the press members would actually harm him.
- He insulted "white" Christians as basically calling themselves something that they are not as if he had the monopoly on spiritual truth.
- He complained several times that the Bill Moyers interview edited out key parts as if to suggest that Moyers manipulated the video to deliberately portray him in a bad light.
- He defended and would not denounce Louis Farrakhan.
- He suggested himself as a suitable Vice-President candidate.
Bottom line, Obama will get 90% of the black vote no matter what to go along with many liberal whites that are going to vote for Obama simply for the "change" aspect.
However, many others who might be considering to vote for Obama will turn away from him after hearing the extremism and seeing the contempt that J Wright has for much of America.
Jeremiah Wright says that the Black Church is being attacked by the press and he is defending it. However, the underlying message he communicates is that white America is the main problem for black people today and has been since the very beginning. In other words, almost all whites, including democrats really just don’t get it. There is an inherent moral bankruptcy with whites that is readily evidenced.
Obama has a problem. He had better denounce and distance himself from J Wright and fast. This guy is not going away and he seems to relish the attention. The press that has practically anointed Obama as President and are trying their best to see him elected will not take today's public spanking by Jeremiah Wright very well at all. You will see some in the media swing back to Clinton.
J Wright is nothing but trouble. He is divisive and he doesn't care. If Obama wants to bring people together with a message of hope and change then he better come out and disassociate himself from his former pastor very quickly.
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